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Thompson wins McClintock backing

Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson, aiming to showcase his conservative credentials in California, touted the support of one of the state’s most relentless Republican critics of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger – while acknowledging he has never sought the endorsement of the California governor. San Francisco Chronicle.

Thompson appeared Tuesday at a brief press conference – his first public event as a presidential candidate in California – at the start of a two-day fundraising trip that is scheduled to take him to Carmichael (Sacramento County), Los Gatos and San Francisco Wednesday.

The former Tennessee senator stood proudly at the Sacramento Convention Center before a lineup of GOP legislators including his newly named California campaign chairman, state Sen. Tom McClintock of Thousand Oaks (Ventura County) – a conservative icon among the activist GOP grassroots in California who has lambasted the Republican Schwarzenegger on issues ranging from taxes and spending to “post partisan” cooperation with Democrats.